Review of Burnout Revenge Carnage and Destruction for XBox

Here is a look at Burnout Revenge, a racing game for the Xbox and Xbox 360. There are many racing games out there that have the same courses, the same features, the same... well everything. Race here, upgrade this, and beat this guy and so on, but this game is very different. You don't care if you win the race; you just want to go faster than you've ever gone before and make the guy next to you crash and burn. The game does great giving a close-up of your opponent's destruction and its all in slow motion, so you can experience the carnage frame by frame.

The graphics are stunning to say the least. Every thing about the cars and cities is accurate, and looks just like a real course. When a car is shredded in an accident, you see every piece of flying metal, every spark, and every bit of the carnage. When you crash and burn you can put the game into a slow motion feature for amazing effects, and these are farther enhanced if you own the game for the 360. Audio is just as good. You can hear every aspect of the race, from bone crunching crashes, to squealing tires. There is even music to accompany you along you path of destruction, with tracks from hit artist, like the song Dance Dance by Fall Out Boy.

Although the main part of this game is racing against multiple opponents in a normal lap by lap event, there are plenty of other features this game offers. Tell me, have you ever had a bad day in traffic than come home and played this game with the traffic attack mode? Big time stress reliever. You start off with a clock counting down to zero, if you allow the time to run out then its game over, however every time you hit a car it adds back time and keeps tabs on how much damage your doing to the vehicles around you. Causing more destruction equals more points, and that allows you to eventually unlock more cars in the game, cars that are even faster and far better, so you can easily double your destructive potential in no time. Sweet payback indeed! Get your revenge on all the times you've bin stuck in traffic.

My favorite game type is the road rage mode. Once again there's a clock you have to beat, and to gain time on the clock you have eliminate opponents cars by running them into obstacles, and trust me crashing cars in this game can't help but be fun. The entire object of this game type is to see how many of you opponents you take down, so to me this mode is all good. You get to blow up cars, and as long as you keep it up the clock never runs out allowing for endless hours of pointless destruction. Sweet!

The game also has the Xbox live feature. This is the one and only area in the game that's lacking. The same thing happens all the time, choose you car and every one chooses the same one as you did. Then who ever starts in first stays in first unless they make some horrible mistake. If you all have the same cars and no one crashes then it becomes somewhat pointless, you just kill traffic and then brag about how many mini-vans you blew up after the race. Xbox live is good but leaves something to be desired I would suggest that you wait until you have gotten really adept at the game before venturing online, however this dose not take too much away from the game. I still highly recommend this title to any racing game fan who owns an Xbox or Xbox 360, but please don't take the lessons learned in this game to heart, we don't need some nut driving South in the Northbound lane of I-95... not today.